What to type

What it does

Fullscreen

This can be set to "on" or "off" to select wheter to start Ultima Online in fullscreen, or window sreen. If you have Direct-X problems, you might prefer to set it to play in a window.

ShowIntroAnim=no

Type this in, if you want to skip the movie, that plays when you start the game up.

use565=yes

Making the game running in 565 colors, if you have a slow machine, this will make the game run faster, especially machines running under Windows NT.

OrderCache

Set this line as "startup" or "off". Startup means that the cache file will reorder on startup (non-max installs only). This can results in faster gameplay, but it can take up to a few min., to start the client up.

Mouse

Setting this to "slow" means not to run the mouse cursor in seperate threads. This will allways make the mouse curser feel jumpy, but may prevent crashes on some machines.

ChestOpening=off

This line will not need many seconds, to you, to found out, that it will skip the chest, when it opens up, when you start the game.

UseCircleTrans=yes

A circle of transparency, will allow you to see yourself behind buildings, and other large objects, and manipulate items, that are behind it.

MorotietyQuery=on

If you set this to on, you will allways have a yes/no window pop up, when you attack something, that will cause your notoriety to fall. NOTE! This option, will not work, when casting spells, attacking pets, hirelings, or summoned creatures.

FrameSkipping=on

For people with slower video draw times. This will make the client attempt to skip draw frames, when the time spend drawing becomes too high. NOTE! That this can also cause "stuttering" in the image, if your videocard, simply can't keep up! Valid text for the toggle is "FrameSkipping= [yes/no/on/off]".

BarkTimeModifier=300

BarkTimeModifier sets how long the speech is standing above peoples heads (default is 4 sec.) as percentage. The default is 300% as long for speech (12 sec.). The default is shown. Change it for a different effect.

ScaleBarkTimes=no

ScaleBarkTimes is a toggle, to adjust wheter or not the duration scales based on the lenght of the text displayed. The default is shown. Change it for a different effect.

CombatHueColor=31

This option is for colorblinds. This will let you adjust the combat cursor color, when in combat mode. The numbers are somewhat difficult to set, so you may wish to experiment. 31 (shown) is bright blue, while 992 is bright green.

AssumePlayAsGhost=on

This will prevent the option, comming up, when you die. You will play as a ghost, if you die, you can't choose to be rescurect with penalityes. It's good, so you can't in a accident, press the "rescurect with penalityes" button.

Unicodespeech=on

This option, allows you to type in æ, å, ø, ï, ä and so on. NOTE! This option, will make your typing color 992, and the color can't be changed, unless you remove the line again.